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JAMES CUMMINS bookseller

JAMES CUMMINS bookseller

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front cover: item 23 inside front cover: item 45 inside rear cover: item 49 rear cover: item 7 catalogue photography by nicole neenan terms of payment: All items, as usual, are guaranteed as described and are returnable within 10 days for any reason. All books are shipped UPS (please provide a street address) unless otherwise requested. Overseas orders should specify a shipping preference. All postage is extra. New clients are requested to send remittance with orders. Libraries may apply for deferred billing. All New York and New Jersey residents must add the appropriate sales tax. We accept American Express, Master Card, and Visa. the accounts of thomas biddle, u.s. paymaster, st. louis (BIDDLE, Thomas) Treasury Department of the U.S. Forty-six manuscript auditors’ reports relating to the accounts of Major Thomas Biddle, Paymaster, U.S. Army, St. Louis, Missouri. Ranging from 1 to 4 pp. Folio and quarto, [Washington, D.C.]: 1821- 1831. Some occasional smudges or stains, few documents torn along folds, generally in very good condition. In custom linen clamshell box. Major Thomas Biddle (1790 - 1830), eighth child of Captain Charles Biddle and Hannah Shepard, younger brother of Nicholas Biddle of the famous Pennsylvania family, distinguished himself as a soldier in the War of 1812 and on 15 August 1814 was brevet- ted major. In 1820 he was made Paymaster in St. Louis, and served in that ofce for 10 years until he was killed in a duel with Congressman Spencer Pettis. “The duel … occurred on August 27, 1830 … Spencer Pettis, while electioneering during the senatorial canvass of 1830, attacked the president of the United States Bank, Nicholas Biddle, in a campaign speech. His remarks were immediately taken up by Major Thomas Biddle, paymaster in the U.S. Amy and brother to Nicholas, who went to the hotel of the Congressman and cow-hided Pettis as he lay sick in bed. Subsequently, Pettis, having been re-elected to Congress by a large majority, issued a challenge which the Major promptly accepted. Major Biddle, having the choice of distance by being the challenged person, fxed it at fve paces be- cause of his short-sightedness. At dawn, the men met on Bloody Island, their pistols almost touching — so near they stood — and both were struck at the frst exchange. Spencer Pettis died the following day and Major Biddle three days later” (East St. Louis Ac- tion Research Project website). The archive here relates to the accounts of Major Biddle as U.S. Paymaster in St. Louis, a post he held until his death. The last three documents included here postdate Biddle’s death and are addressed to his widow Anne Biddle. $3,000 the glorious first of june in a kalthoeber binding (BINDING, Kalthoeber) Narrative of the Proceedings of His Majesty’s Fleet, Under the Command of Earl Howe, from the Second of May to the Second of June M.DCC.XCIV. Frontispiece portrait (dated 1798), engraved title, engraved plate (foxed) and folding map (closed tear). 91, [1], [93*]-*100, [6], 97-118 pp. 4to, London: T. Burton, 1796. First edition, second issue (with errata printed on verso of title). Contempo- rary full red morocco, covers with triple-ruled outer border surrounding inner border of small circles, gilt-stamped fern tool at corners, spine in six compartments with raised bands, a.e.g., by Kalthoeber (his ticket on fyleaf ). Foxing to portrait and engraved title, else fne. Previous owners’ stamps to fep. For binding: Spawn & Kinsella 468 & 469; Ramsden, p. 89. A prospectus of sorts for A.C. De Poggi’s two engraved scenes, after paintings by Robert Cleveley, of the events of June 1st, 1794, with an account of the battle, a subscribers list and appendices listing English and French ofcers present. Likely a subscriber’s copy, in a beautiful, understated binding by Christian Katlhoeber (who bound at least one other copy of this work). $3,500

2 | james cummins bookseller bound by samuel welcher (BINDING, Welcher, Samuel) Moore, James Esq. A Narrative of the Campaign of the British Army in Spain, Commanded by His Excellency Lieut.-General Sir John Moore. Frontispiece portrait of John Moore, 2 partially colored folding maps (“Plan of the Action Near Coruña” & “Spain & Portugal with the March of the British Columns”), extra-illustrated with engraved view of the wooden monument erected by Spain at the site of Moore’s grave and an original ink and wash drawing if the same monumemt, dated August 18, 1809, both with black ink funerary borders. xii, 238, 89, [1] pp. 4to, London: 1809. Fifth edition, corrected. Full black straight-grained morocco, wide gilt and blindstamped borders composed of a Greek key motif and small foral tools on a studded background, surrounding gilt-blocked arms and motto of the Moore family and the Order of the Bath on the front cover, and military tomb on rear cover, spine with double raised bands, lettered in two compartments, the rest gilt, wide turn-ins tooled in gilt, blue moiré endpapers, a.e.g., by Welcher (with his yellow label on verso of front free endpaper, “Bound by Welcher, 12, Villiers Strt. Strand”). Wear to front joint, just starting at lower end. A narrative of General Moore’s campaign against the French during the Napoleonic wars in Spain, in a fne binding by Samuel Welcher. Moore (1761-1809) was killed during the battle at Coruña, his army ex- hausted, badly outnumbered and short of supplies. He was celebrated as a national hero in England and Spain, where a monument was errected on the site of his grave in Coruña (depicted here in an engraving and original drawing). This was likely a family copy — the arms of the Moore family are stamped on the front cover, and an autograph euglogy on the death of John Moore MD (1729-1802), father of Sir John Moore, is afxed to the front fyleaf, followed by 11 pages of autograph transcriptions of encomi- ums on the life of Sir John Moore. $3,500

2014 rbms preconference | 3 BLISS, Tasker H. Archive of retained correspondence, drafts of speeches, book reviews, and military reports, etc. 1-½ linear feet (approx. 750 leaves). 4to and smaller, Ha- vana, etc: [ca. 1900 to 1923 and later]. Generally very good (some staining and chipping to book review typescripts). Tasker H. Bliss (1853-1930), U.S.M.A. class of 1875, inspec- tor of European military schools in the late 1880s, military attaché to Spain at the outbreak of the Spanish-American War, “Ordered to Havana, Cuba in December 1898, LTC Bliss served as Collector of Customs for the Island of Cuba and the Port of Havana, reforming a corrupt and inefcient service” (Keilers). He was governor of Moro Province in the Philippines and held other posts in the islands. He served as President of the Army War College on two separate occasions, and was named Army Chief of Staf in 1916, serving until May 1918: “He transformed the Army from a small peacetime establishment to a large war machine, and also ably defended American interests in Al- lied war councils”; at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919, he was an American plenipotentiary representative. He was a founding member of the Council on Foreign Relations. His personal papers are at the U.S. Army Military History Institute (1871-1909).

4 | james cummins bookseller The present group of material includes — Retained correspondence as Major, Ofce of the Collector of Customs for Cuba (1902), with related documents (thick bundle). — Letter fle, personal and administrative correspondence received, Army War College, 1905 — Military art [Caption title]. Undated typescript, 169 pp., rectos only, with insertions, manuscript corrections, tables. Textbook. — Military Schools of Germany [Caption title]. Undated typescript, 84 pp., plus Appendices [20] pp., rectos only. — Bliss, Tasker H. Discours prononcé à la Dis- tribution des Prix du Lycée Hoche, à Versailles, le 3 Octobre 1918. Versailles: Aubert, 1918. 4 pp., pink wrappers. Not in BNF, not in OCLC.

— Drafts or fnished texts of speeches: To the graduating class of the Institute of Tech- nology, Zamboanga, P. I. The Important Elements in Modern Land Con- ficts, published, 1905. Talk on the Russo-Japanese War Luncheon in honor of Marechal Foch, Sherry’s, 1921. Pencil notes, typescript (worn). Speech in Pennsylvania on the Armistice in World War I (four years after the end of hostili- ties) Speech at a dinner of the American-Yugoslav Society (1920s) Speech at Businessman’s Lunch Club, Baltimore (1920s)

— Book reviews (typescripts and journal proofs), 1920s: The Armistice, review of: Hermeix, Les Négo- tiations Secrètes The Later Roman Empire, review of: Bury, Cambridge, 1923 Palmer, Statesmanship or War, 1927 The Study of War, 1927. $1,750

2014 rbms preconference | 5 [BLOCQUEL, Simon-François]. Le Nécessaire des Dames, Véritable Trésor de la Toilette, de la Santé, et d’Économie Domestique. 4 engraved frontispieces. viii, 135, [1]; viii, 127, [1]; viii, 128; viii, 128 pp. 4 vols. 32mo, Paris, and Lille: Delarue, and (Blocquel for) Castiaux, [1827]. Original orange paper wrappers, housed in the original marbled board slipcase with lettering piece on spine and Versailles vendor’s label on bottom panel. Slight soiling and wear; contents toned with varying foxing and scattered minor stains; slipcase joints partly cracked. Includes the contemporary bookseller’s ticket on the bottom panel of the slipcase, “Ve. Boullenger / Marchande Papetiere / Rue de la Paroisse / … Versailles.” Curiously, the “Ve.” has been crossed out in ink, as have the fnal e’s in “Marchande Papetiere” suggesting that the Veuve Boullenger’s son has recently taken over the business. A remarkably well-preserved four volume set of an exceedingly scarce pocket encyclopedia of personal hygiene, health, and domestic economy for women. Each of the four volumes focuses on specifc necessities: volume one begins with attention to bathing and skin care, how to dress, prepare one’s wardrobe, and to style one’s hair, the laun- dering of fne linens, silk, lace, and even straw hats; volume two addresses the secrets of removing all manner of stains from all manner of fabrics, housecleaning, both of appartments and furnishings, and the eradication of pests and insects; volume three describes the best means of maintaining one’s health, and the remedies for a variety of illnesses, particularly those that alter physical beauty and the external condition of the body; in volume four the author turns to the proven remedies for ailments that require habitual treatment, and lastly emergency medical treatments for heartburn and diges- tion, cramps, and coughs, snakebites and opium overdose, and a variety of other health matters. We could locate only one other copy of this set, at the Bibliothèque Nationale. The Lille printer-bookseller Simon-François Blocquel (1780-1863) published almanacs, advice books, and popular literature, some of which he wrote himself, and ran a successful print shop where he employed a staf of nearly 30. Civic minded, Blocquel supported social welfare, and was made Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur before his death. $4,500

6 | james cummins bookseller collection of 31 books inscribed by paul bowles to composer phillip ramey BOWLES, Paul, et al. Collection of 31 books inscribed by Paul Bowles to his friend composer Phillip Ramey. 31 vols. Various sizes, mostly 8vo, v.p: v.d. Generally in very good or better condition. Phillip Ramey is an American composer and writer and was one of Paul Bowles closest friends towards the end of the author’s life. Ramey was for many years the annotator and program editor at the New York Philharmonic and has written the liner notes to hundreds of recordings, as well as a biography of the composer Irving Fine. His Horn Concerto was commissioned by the NY Philharmonic to celebrate their 150th anniversary. Ramey continues to compose and write and is in the process of overseeing the recording of his piano works. Ramey was frst introduced to Paul Bowles in 1969 by Aaron Copland and later became a close friend and neighbor of the author, renting Jane Bowles’ former apartment in Tangier. (A full account of their meeting and friendship can be found here: http:// www.paulbowles.org/memoir.html.) Ramey was an important friend and ally of Bowles in his later years, helping to care for his friend as his health deteriorated and protecting the often besieged author from the various journalists and fanatics that would show up at his Tangier home. Ramey was also important in the rediscovery and appreciation of Bowles’ work as a composer and had a hand in the recording of some of his friend’s piano works. They remained friends until Bowles’ death in 1999. The collection comprises books, mostly by Bowles, inscribed to Ramey during his many stays in Tangier. A complete list is avail- able on request.

2014 rbms preconference | 7 california caricatures (CALIFORNIA) Unreasonable Rhymes Told by Anne Idyott [Cover title]. 80 original ink and watercolor caricature drawings, with manuscript doggerel verse below; dedication leaf “To the Children,” with watercolor heads of 5 winsome children; manuscript index of place names; verso of fnal leaf with watercolor of stork delivering an infant. Oblong 8vo (7 x 10 inches), [California: 1894]. Limp green cloth, upper cover titled in gilt. Front blank leaf detached, some minor wear, very clean and fresh internally (marginal tear at foot of leaf 31). Half morocco slipcase and chemise. Unique, unpublished manuscript book of eighty caricature scenes, the boldly colored, deft, busy, and highly detailed work of an amateur artist; the verses are less competent ditties in quasi-limerick form, each associated with a city and one of its eccentric residents (mostly in California but also Baltimore, Seattle, Jersey City, Detroit, Perth, and Shanghai). Some attempts at copy editing, chiefy of punctua- tion, in pencil throughout. There are scenes of horse races, swimming, trains, cattle trading at Point Reyes, boating, battles, ghosts, undersea corpses, the courtship of a horse and an ostrich at Kankakee, real estate swindles (sand lots at Terminal Island)‚ family dining, high society at Colusa, the tramway at Del Mar, and many more. The last leaf depicts a balding scribbler with his head in his hands beside a drafting table; the only clue to the author, “who came out here from Britain … Folks said: It cannot be Lord Lytton.” Wildly imaginative and UNIQUE. $11,000

8 | james cummins bookseller “an unknown renaissance gem”: one of 20 copies CRICHTON, James. Venice. A Poem in Latin … with an English version by Robert Crawford and eight photogravures by Norman McBeath. With 8 photogravure plates, each numbered and signed by the artist in pencil. Loose sheets, title page and sectional titles printed in burgundy and black, f. [1, title], [1]-16 [colophon], printed rectos only, foot untrimmed. Folio, Edinburgh: Easel Press, 2013. Edition of 20 copies, printed on Fabriano Artistico, signed in ink by Crawford and McBeath on the colophon leaf. In publisher’s black cloth folding box. As new. OCLC: 870037920 (National Library of Scotland, St. Andrews). Far from home, facing the Adriatic, I stopped, stunned by that city rising there Dead-centre in the waves […] Overcome, I simply started crying At all that had gone wrong with my own life, Until a Naiad stepped before my eyes, So beautiful I caught my breath. I saw […] Long poem, composed in Latin by James Crichton (1560- 1582), ‘the Admirable Crichton,’ a young Scottish polymath whose family was closely linked to the house of Stewart. Crichton, an accomplished swordsman, travelled on the continent. He came to Venice in 1580, and composed his long poem, as “part of his successful wooing of Venetian society. It is a young man’s rhetorical exercise, but also a panoptic work of genuine accomplishment … it communi- cates, too, the tang of struggle and pain” (from Crawford’s preface). It was included in 1637 in the Delitiae Poetarum Scotorum, the frst anthology of Scottish poetry. Crichton died in a swordfght in Mantua in 1582; his memory has been cherished in Scotland, from a mid-seventeenth century poem by Sir Thomas Urquhart to the 1902 play by J.M. Barrie. The present edition includes the Latin text, an original English translation by Robert Crawford, with eight atmospheric plates of Venice by Norman McBeath. Robert Crawford is author of A Scottish Assembly (1990), Full Volume (2008), and he has translated the Latin verse of George Buchanan and Arthur Johnston in Apollos of the North (2006). Norman McBeath is an acclaimed photographer and printmaker whose work includes a collaboration with Paul Muldoon, Plan B (2009), and several authors have produced original work in response to his photographs, including Jeannette Winterson (Oxford at Night, 2006), A.L. Kennedy (Evidence, 2006), and Janice Galloway (City Stories, 2008). “Robert Crawford’s and Norman McBeath’s Venice provides a radiant new setting for a virtually unknown Renaissance gem – James Crichton’s awestruck poetic response to the city’s sea-girt beauty and dazzling intellectual culture. Crawford’s ebullient English perfectly captures the breathless emotion and headlong imagination of Crichton’s Latin, while Norman McBeath’s photogravures enable us to marvel along with the poet at the city’s haunting strangeness and grandeur. Crawford’s spirited translation gives the lie to the ODNB’s comment that Crichton’s brilliant reputation rests on ‘no adequately objective record’ and will surely excite a new interest in the period’s neo Latin poetry” (Lorna Hutson). A beautiful production of a remarkable poem. $2,750

2014 rbms preconference | 9 DARWIN, Charles. Note, signed (“Ch. Dar- win”), to E. Bartlett, Esq. Pen and ink on postcard, with postal ink stamps. 3 x 4-¾ in., Down [House, Kent]: Oct 17th [1871]. Fine.

“I am greatly obliged for your note received this morning Ch. Darwin.” The recipient may be the English ornithologist Edward Bartlett (1836-1908). His father, the taxidermist Abra- ham Dee Bartlett, was a friend of Darwin. $2,500

10 | james cummins bookseller DI PRIMA, Diane. Archive of letters and postcards from Diane Di Prima to Robert A. Wilson. 30 autograph postcards and letters signed to Robert A. Wilson, owner of the Phoenix Book Shop, New York City. Various sizes, mostly postcards and greeting cards, Denver, CO., San Francisco, Point Reyes, CA., Tacoma, WA: Septem- ber 1972 - December 2009. Fine. A near 40-year run of correspondence between the American poet Diane Di Prima (1934- ) and Robert A. Wilson (1922- ), the third proprietor of the Phoenix Book Shop, New York, NY, and the publisher of over 40 works of poetry, including titles by W.H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Mari- anne Moore, Gertrude Stein, Richard Wilbur, and Diane Di Prima. The Phoenix Book Shop’s mimeo machine produced the early issues of The Floating Bear, an important literary newsletter edited by Di Prima and LeRoi Jones. The letters reveal both Di Prima and Wilson’s close personal friendship and their common interest: books, publishing, and poetry. In one undated letter, circa 1969, Di Prima discusses the cost of getting her Book of Hours produced, as well as the literary scene in the San Francisco Bay Area, “the Scene here is all in Bolinas — whither I have not repaired, even once, since getting back to town …” The members of that scene mentioned by Di Prima include Bill Berkson, Tom Clark, Robert Creeley, Joanne Kyger, David Meltzer, and others. In another postcard she updates Wilson on a trip that included visits to Missoula, MT, Pocatello, ID, Boulder, CO, and an Ashram in British Columbia. Further topics include Di Prima’s travels around the western United States, her teaching, and family news. $2,500

2014 rbms preconference | 11 the new zealander’s ironclads: family copy of a science fiction rarity FAIRBURN, Edwin. The Ships of Tarshish: A Sequel to Sue’s “Wandering Jew.” By Mohoao. With pictorial wrapper, 4 plates (2- page facsimile autograph letter from Admiral Popof, dated 1880, 2 plates of submarine plans). [iv], 32, 104 pp. 8v0, London [Auckland]: Hall & Co., 25, Paternoster Row. Sold by Upton & Co., Booksellers, Auckland, N.Z., 1867 [but 1884]. First edition, with Auckland bookseller slip on title page. Contemporary half red morocco and marbled boards, preserving illustrated front wrapper dated 1867. Ticket of Leighton, Auckland, on front pastedown. Spine slightly toned, occasional light foxing. Very good. Hocken, p. 396 (note); Bagnall 1857. Edwin Fairburn (1827-1911), New Zealand land surveyor, painter, and writer. The Ships of Tarshish is the frst published novel by a native of New Zealand. It is science fction, “a kind of Future War tale in which an English descendant of the Wander- ing Jew saves beleaguered Britain with his futuristic ironclads” (Encyclopedia of Science Fiction). The book was never ofered for sale in 1867; as the opening paragraphs of Part the First (with separate pagination, printed by H. Brett, General Steam Printer, Auckland, in 1884) indicate, Fairburn eventually retrieved the sheets from London, and the book was published in Auckland. OCLC records copies only in the British Library and Colorado State (bound with an 1889 sequel, The Ships of the Future); copies are also recorded in New Zealand and Australian libraries. “Notwithstanding Fairburn’s preoccupation with ship design, naval warfare and defence, there are some interesting irrel- evancies, e.g. his views on erosion and soil conservation” (Bagnall). A family copy, with holograph note describing the career of Edwin Fairburn, by the author’s grandson, A.R.D. Fairburn, dated 1944. Fairburn (1904-1957) was a New Zealand poet and critic: “the iron-sand beaches of the Tasman coast and the marine geography of the Hauraki Gulf were to become key elements in his poetry” (Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand). $4,500

12 | james cummins bookseller (FRENCH REVOLUTION) Almanach des Muses [Index to and extracts from the literary journal, 1765-1792]. 108 pp. 8vo, [Paris: 1792]. Green paper-covered Middle Hill boards, with folded sheets sewn in. Loss to spine, but solid, some soiling, leaves show some minor soiling, repair to 2 leaves, otherwise near fne condition. Provenance: from the Library of Sir Thomas Phillipps. A handwritten index for the 18th-century French poetry journal, L’Almanach des Muses, including an alphabetical listing of authors, a chronological listing of authors by category with frst line and titles of their contributions, and short extracts from the magazine. This is a remarkable social, literary, and historcial document, compiled during the turmoil of the French Revolution, under- scoring the importance of the literary press in 18th-century France. The entries here span the dates 1765-1792. The Almanach itself was founded in 1765 by the French journalist and homme de lettres Claude-Sixte Sautreau de Marsy. It included recent poetry, with critical notes, and information about the contemporary literary scene. Appearing in January of each year, the Almanach des Muses published a number of lesser-known writers alongside well-known writers. During the French Revolution, the magazine printed “La Marseillaise” in 1793 and Sade’s eulogy to Marat in 1794. $1,250

2014 rbms preconference | 13 (GARDENING) Hesse, Heinrich. Neue Garten-Lust: das ist Gründliche Vorstellung wie ein Lust-Küchen und Baum Garten unter unserem Teutschen Climate füglich anzurichten. Title page printed in red and black. With 10 engraved (2 folding) plates. )(4 A-3I4. [1-8] (title, preface, signed “Theodorus Phytologus”), 1-416 (text), [i-xxiv] (three registers, i.e., table of contents and two indexes) pp. Small 4to, [Leipzig]: Moriss Georg Weidmann, 1690. First edition. Contemporary vellum. Owner signature of “D:E: v Stiedtencron” on the title-page lower right, “H v. Stiedencron” on front fyleaf. Small piece of bottom corner of front fyleaf torn away, a couple of minor paper faws in margins, a very good, fresh copy of an uncommon book. OCLC records 3 existing copies: HAB Wolfenbüttel, Dumbarton Oaks, N.Y. Botani- cal Garden. The copy in the Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek Weimar is reported destroyed in the 2004 fre. First edition of the most important late-seventeenth century German work on gardening, by Heinrich Hesse, overseer of the Electoral Gardens in Mainz, who specifcally adapted French notions of garden design to German conditions, and whose work remained infuential through the mid-eighteenth century (further editions in 1696, 1706, 1714, and 1740). Rare. $12,500

14 | james cummins bookseller introduction of the suffragette mrs. helen m. barnard GARFIELD, James. Autograph Letter, signed (“Ja Garfeld”), to Hon. E.[lihu] B.[enjamin] Washburne, U.S. Minister at Paris, France. 1 leaf. 11 x 8-½ inches, Hiram, Ohio: June 17, 1873. Old folds. In this letter Garfeld writes as an Ohio Congressman to introduce Mrs. Helen M. Barnard to the US Minister in Paris during her survey of conditions for emigrants on board steamships, especially as concerns women and children, as commissioned by the Secretary of the Treasury, William A. Richardson. Barnard was a government clerk, journalist, and an original member of the Universal Franchise Association, and an associate of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton (see “The Selected Papers of SBA and ECS”, Rutgers, 2000, Vol. 2, p. 591). Barnard submitted her report to the Secretary on December 1, 1873, which included recommendations for standardization of schedules and transit fares, measures to avoid overcrowding, and other matters. It was uncommon at the time for a woman to hold such a position, a fact that Barnard acknowledged in closing her report, wherein she remarked that the good treatment she received from agents and ofcials “was especially gratifying… as the appointment of a woman [is] an innova- tion upon established customs.” The addressee, Elihu B. Washburne (1816-1887), severed as Secretary of State under Ulysses S. Grant, and was the sole diplomat to remain in Paris during the Franco-Prussian War, during which time he provided important humanitarian and diplomatic support, eforts recognized by both French and German governments. $1,250

2014 rbms preconference | 15 GODWIN, William. Mandeville. A Tale of the Seventeenth Century in England. 3 vols. 12mo, Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co. and Long- man, Hunt, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817. First edition. Contemporary tree calf, spines with red and green labels, all half titles. Minor foxing to preliminaries, joints starting, but a sound copy in a lovely contemporary binding. Tinker 1084; Wolf 2588; Summers, A Gothic Bibliography, p. 398; Garside 1817:29. Godwin’s Gothic novel, inspired partly by Wieland by Charles Brockdon Brown, and by Joanna Baillie. “Written like all his novels in the frst person the book attempts to show how obsession leads to madness. Godwin sought to trace the breakdown of personality from within … [Mandeville] is an open- ly avowed exploration of the subconscious mind which gradually overrides and destroys conscious rationality … Mandeville … is an essay in one of the great themes of romanticism” (St. Clair, The Godwins and the Shelleys, p. 440). $1,750

16 | james cummins bookseller HALFORD, Frederic M. The author’s manuscript for Floating Flies and How to Dress Them. Pen and ink, in Halford’s handwriting, with comments in the hand of G.S. Marryat, marked for the printer, with some remarks by R.B. Marston and readers at Samp- son Low, the book’s publisher. 4to, London: 1886. Old fold across center, a few minor creases and marginal tears. In custom half morocco slipcase and chemise. Westwood & Satchell Supplement, p. 246. The manuscript of the frst book by Frederic M. Halford, universally acknowledged as the founder of modern dry fy angling. In An Angler’s Autobiography, Halford referred to this book as the result of several years’ collaboration with G.S. Marryat, and this manuscript bears signs that Halford sent Marryat chapters for comment. Changes and insertions in Halford’s hand can be found over pencilled remarks in Marryat’s writing (often rubbed out but still discernable). Chapter IV contains the greatest number of these changes. Marryat, respected as the greatest angler of his age, ultimately declined to use his name in the published book, and Halford has changed the joint “We” to “I” throughout as necessary. $40,000

2014 rbms preconference | 17 second book, signed HEANEY, Seamus. Door Into the Dark. 56 pp. 8vo, New York: Oxford University Press, 1969. First American edition. Publisher’s black cloth, titled in gilt on spine. Near fne, in very good dust-jacket with light rubbing and small closed tear on rear panel. The frst American edition of Heaney’s second book, signed on the title “Seamus Heaney” and dated “22nd March 1971” during his appearence at a reading at the 92nd St Y in New York. $1,000

18 | james cummins bookseller the first hebrew grammar published in america (HEBREW GRAMMAR) Monis, Judah. Dickdook Leshon Gnebreet. A Grammar of the Hebrew Tongue, Being An Essay to bring the Hebrew Grammar into English, to Facilitate the Instruction of all those who are desirous of aquiring a clear Idea of this Primitive Language by their own Studies. [4], 94, [2] pp. With a tipped-in broadside of “The Hebrew Grammar at One View, “ from Parkhurst’s “An Hebrew and English lex- icon,” probably the 1762 edition. 4to, Boston, N.E: Printed by Jonas Green, and are to be Sold by the Author at his House in Cambridge, 1735. First edition. Three quarter speckled calf and marbled boards. Light stains on folding table, title-page and following three leaves. Final leaf (con- taining table of contents) with a one-inch triangular tear in the outer edge, costing about a dozen words. Several instances of early ink marginalia or doodlings. Very good. Evans 3931; Singerman 24; Rosenbach 28; Wilberforce Eames, “On the Use of Hebrew Types in English America Before 1735,” in A. S. Friedus Memorial Volume, NY, 1929, p. 481; Goldman 171; Bibliography of Hebrew Books 2, no. 24; Karp, From the Ends of the Earth 286; NAIP w004735. A landmark in the history of printing in the Americas, this is the frst Hebrew grammar published in America, printed from “the frst complete fount of Hebrew type in the American colonies” (Eames). This copy bears the manuscript name, in two places (the upper margin of pages 20 and 94), of Simeon Howard. Howard (1733-1804) attended Harvard, graduating in 1758. He was almost certainly a student of Monis and would have used this book as his textbook. For more than thirty-fve years Howard was the pastor of the West Church in Boston, one of the most infuential churches in the city. Hebrew type was frst used in the North American colonies in the Bay Psalm Book, printed in 1640 in Cambridge. Over the next ninety-fve years Hebrew type appeared in a handful of American imprints, usually in brief examples of single words or short sentences. By the 1720s, measures were taken to change this situation. As Eames explains, “In 1726, Mr. Thomas Hollis, merchant of London, sent over three boxes of Greek and Hebrew types, a present from one of his friends to the Corporation of Harvard College. Upon examination by Mr. Monis, the instructor of Hebrew in the College, the set of Hebrew types was found to be incomplete, therefore in June, 1728, the Corporation voted to send for so many Hebrew types and points as were necessary to complete the set.” Judah Monis, born in Algiers or Italy in 1683 and had settled in Boston by 1720. In 1723 he was awarded an M.A. from Harvard, and he was the instructor of Hebrew there (though never a full professor) until 1760. Monis published several works in his lifetime, and though the present grammar was accessible to any educated person, it was produced “especially for the use of the students of Harvard-College at Cambridge.” He attempted to publish the book in 1720 and again in 1726, but was hindered partly by the paucity of Hebrew types noted above. The book was fnally printed in 1735 by Jonas Green, the grandson of Samuel Green, who was the second printer in the British colonies, preceded only by Stephen Day (who printed the Bay Psalm Book). Jonas Green apprenticed under his father, Timothy Green, himself a noted printer in New London, Ct. Jonas Green printed a few items in Boston before moving on to Philadelphia (where he worked for Franklin and Bradford) and Annapolis, where he became printer to the colony in the 1740s. The Dickdook … was printed in an edition believed to be a thousand copies, and was used by students at a number of New England colleges, including Dartmouth. A landmark of American printing history, and of Jewish Americana. $30,000

2014 rbms preconference | 19 HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Winner Take Nothing. 8vo, New York and London: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1933. First edition. Original black cloth with gold paper labels. Fine in fne dust-jacket. Hanneman A12a. A spectacular copy. Contains 14 short stories, including “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place.” $5,500

20 | james cummins bookseller the hammer of witches, second edition INSTITORIS, Henricus and Jacobus SPRENGER. Malleus Malefcarum. [102] ll. a8 b-26 ef8 g-h6 i8 k-r6. 56 lines in double columns. Rubricated throughout, sporadic contemporary marginalia. Folio (10-1/16 x 7-1/8 in.), [Speyer: Peter Drach, 1490]. Second edition. Seventeenth-century tan-stained vellum, front cover stamped in black with owner’s initials and date (“I.H.B. 1625”), center cartouches stamped in black, of Iris, messenger of the gods, on front cover and Themis, goddess of justice, on rear cover, spine titled in manuscript, evidence of prior spine label. Soiling and light wear to a1, intermittent wear to fore- and bottom-edge margins of q6-r6, small hole to r5 costing about 6 letters, trimmed with some minor loss to rubricated capital fourishes and marginalia, r1v trimmed at top margin touching two letters. BMC II, 498 (IB. 8615); Gof I-164; HC 9239*; ISTC ii00164000; BSB-Ink. I-226. Provenance: Andreas German (ownership incription on a1, cancelled by next owner); Joahnnes Hermanus Blom[—] (ownership inscription dated 1624 on a1, initials stamped on front cover). The second edition of The Hammer of Witches, “the most important and most sinister work on demonology ever written. It crystallized into a fercely stringent code previous folklore about black magic with church dogma on heresy, and, if any one work could, opened the foodgates of the inquisitorial hysteria … [it was] the source, inspiration, and quarry for all subsequent treatises on witchcraft” (Robbins, Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology). This second edition, printed, as was the frst edition, by Peter Drach in Speyer, includes the Papal bull of Pope Innocent VIII that sanctioned the interrogation and persecution of witches. Malleus Malefcarum was published and republished in at least 13 editions up to 1520, then revived from the late 16th-century, undergoing at least 16 editions between 1574 and 1669, as well as numerous editions in German, French and English. Complete copies of the second edition are rare, with only two copies appearing at auction in the last 30 years (the Haskell Norman copy and the Nakles copy). $60,000

2014 rbms preconference | 21 father of the light switch, car brakes, and diesel-electric locomotion (INVENTORS) Lemp, Hermann. Archive of more than 200 patents and miscellaneous writings of Hermann Lemp. 3 vols. 4to; 8vo, V.p.: v.d. Thick quarto volume of patents bound in polished calf (covers detached); black three-ring binder with various printed, typed, and manuscript writings; printed price-list in original cloth backed boards, spine chipped. Hermann Lemp, Swiss-born inventor (1862-1954) with more than 200 patents, was an early associate of Edison and later worked at General Electric, where he was responsible for the design of electrical devices, electric welding processes, and early automotive propulsion, steering, and braking. Most signifcantly, Lemp’s work with internal combustion locomotives after 1910 led to the perfection of control mechanisms that made diesel-electric engines efcient enough to compete with steam engines in power and economy. In 1917, an early prototype was tested but proved to be underpowered; Lemp’s continued work on the control system resulted in 1923 in the frst truly successful prototype. The frst diesel locomotive was delivered to the New York Central in mid- 1924 and to other railroads soon afterward. The new technology also found application in marine diesel-electric engines (G.E. would later be a big supplier to the U.S. Navy during World War II). In 1951, Lemp was awarded the George R. Henderson Medal for Invention in Railway Engineer- ing by the Franklin Institute. The Lemp Archive comprises Lemp’s compendium of his own patents (many with illustrations) with a family gift inscription dated December 25, 1953; his own assessment of his most signifcant patents, among which are the snap switch (1887), internal expanding automotive brakes (1902), and a fuel injector for Diesel engines (1915); correspondence and articles concerning automotive and diesel-electric technology; Lemp’s copy of the illustrated price-list of telegraph apparatus (Neuen- burg, 1880) manufactured by the Swiss electrical frm of Mathias Hipp where Lemp worked before he emigrated to the U.S.; a portrait photograph; and various autobiographical materials. Lemp recounts an incident during his association with Edison: “On a cold morning in January 1882, Mr. Edison and his assistants were trying the frst electric locomotive in snowdrifts. Mr. Edison allowed me to crowd onto the locomotive (although it was none of my business) when in going backwards I was thrown of. I rolled over the rail as quickly as possible, and can yet see Mrs. Edison looking from the cab, saying “Are you killed yet?” Unique collection of material relating to the history of modern technology. $2,500

22 | james cummins bookseller KEROUAC, Jack. On the Road. 8vo, London: Andre Deutsch, [1958]. First English edition. Red cloth. Near fne in very good dust-jacket, lower corner of front fap clipped, rear panel with slight soiling and two small stains, front panel, reproducing a drawing by Len Deighton, is nice and bright, with no chipping.

$1,500

2014 rbms preconference | 23 KESSEL, Dmitri. Archive of photographs from the personal fles of LIFE photographer Dimitri Kessel. Approx. 500 gelatin silver prints and some color prints, many signed by Kessel and captioned in his or another hand. v.p: v.d. [chiefy ca. 1940s-1960s]. Con- tents generally very good or better. A comprehensive, career-spanning archive of the great Ukrainian-born photojournalist Dimitri Kessel (1902-1995), in all, some 500 unique photographs. During his 60-year career, Kessel worked as an industrial photographer, a war correspondent and combat photographer, and a photo essayist for LIFE. During World War II, he sailed on convoy escorts in the North Atlantic, covered the landing of American troops in the Aleutian Islands and the British landing in Greece. He also photographed the Greek civil war. In later years, Kessel lived on the Yangtze River in China for seven months while producing a photo essay for LIFE. He photographed the Andes Mountains in South America and mining operations in Central Africa. Kessel is world famous for the fdelity of his camera recreations of great art, but was also a tough and adventurous news photographer.

24 | james cummins bookseller Comprises: Rare print of this famous image of the French leader, praying on the eve of the elections for the National Assembly of 1948, standing before an altar in his rain-soaked uniform. The image received a full-page reproduction 1: Collection of approx. 400 photos from Kessel’s personal fles, the major- (from this very print) in On Assignment, with the explanation: “ … in Nice in ity showing Kessel at work or relaxing with his LIFE co-workers, most ca. September 1948. He was campaigning for re-election when he was caught in 1940s-1960s. Many captioned on front or rear, mounting stains. Locations a downpour and refused an umbrella.” include Guantanamo, Cuba; Birminham, AL (with Joe Scherschel); Maine; Central America; Cairo; Bangcock. Collegues pictured include Frank Capa, 12: Portrait photograph of Iranian Prime Minister, Dr. Mohammad Mossa- Ed Thompson, Gijon Mili, and Alfred Eisenstaedt. A fascinating record of degh. Gelatin silver print. Half-length portrait of a smiling Mossadegh seated the ever-smiling Kessel at work and play. with hands outstretched, palms up. 13-⅜ x 10-⅜ inches, [Teheran, Iran: June, 1951]. Printed circa 1984. Very good. Docketed on verso with indications to 2: Three photographs of a nude model for lingerie ad. Gelatin silver prints. the printer for reproduction and placement for the book On Assignment, p. 10-3/16 x 7-15/16 inches, New York: [1934]. Very good. Faint creasing at corners. 160. Docketed on verso in pencil. Three photographs, taken by an unknown photographer, of Dimitri Kessel at work on his frst commercial assignment. A rare and striking portrait of Mossadegh at the height of his popularity shortly after he was named as the new Prime Minister. Two years later 3: Photograph of John Hersey on the Yangtze River [With:] two photo- Mossadegh was ousted in a coup orchestrated by British and American intel- graphs, one of Hersey alone, one of Hersey and Kessel. Gelatin silver print. ligence sources, and the Shah was restored to power. 9-½ x 7-11/16 inches, [China]: [1946]. Some faint creasing to top corners. Docketed on verso; date stamped “Mar 12 1946”. 13: Two portrait photographs of Bernard Berenson at the Villa I Tatti in a reclining chair, with wife Mary at his side, reading, and as refected in in the Kessel and Hersey were on assignment together in China for LIFE in 1946. framed mirror at the foot of his bed. Gelatin silver prints. 13-½ x 10-½ inches, Kessel devotes an entire chapter of his memoirs to his time on the Yangtze: [Florence, Italy: 1949]. Printed circa 1984. Fine. “When I checked in, John Hersey, then a contract writer for LIFE, was there. He had been assigned to do a text piece on a farming village called Red Fine portraits of the famous art critic and connoisseur (1865-1959) relaxing at Pepper [ … ] John suggested that I accompany him to the village, only about his villa, the second reproduced (from this print) in On Assignment, p. 180. forty miles outside Peking, to make photographs to illustrate his piece. I 14: Photograph of Generalissimo Francisco Franco, hunting with a shotgun. said, fne, if he would accompany me to the Yangtze to do the text to go Gelatin silver print. 13-1/2 x 10 inches, [Spain: 1949]. Printed circa 1984, and with my pictures. New York thought it was a great idea” (Kessel, On Assign- reproduced from this print in On Assignment p. 191. Very good. Docketed on ment, p. 149). The previous summer The New Yorker dedicated an entire issue verso with indications to the printer for reduction and placement. to Hersey’s Hiroshima. His novel, A Single Pebble, about an engineer searching Rare and remarkably intimate image of the Spanish dictator. Kessel writes in for a dam site on the Yangtze, would be based on his time on the river with On Assignment: “Franco had invited me to photograph him during a private Kessel. duck and pheasant shoot with some of his friends.” 4: [KESSEL, Dimitri?]. Portrait of Margaret Bourke-White in top hat, clutch- 15: Group of 4 large photographs of the marriage of Mohammad Reza ing a bottle of tequila and taking aim with a toy gun. Gelatin silver print Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, and Soraya Esfandiary. Gelatin silver prints. 13-⅜ x 10- (7-½ x 7-½ in.). n.p: ca. 1940s. Mounting stains to verso, image fne. ½ inches, [Teheran, Iran: 1951]. Printed circa 1984, one reproduced in On As- 5: Photograph of Viennese gazing at sweets in shop window. Vintage gelatin signment, p. 212. Very good. One photo creased at corner; another docketed silver print, signed and docketed on rear with LIFE stamp. 11 x 9-⅛ in. [Vi- on verso with indications to the printer for reproduction. enna: 1948]. Crease at lower left corner, else near fne. Superb, large images of the Shah’s marriage to his second wife, Soraya Reproduced on p. 167 of On Assignment. Esfandiary, the daughter of Khalil Esfandiary, Ambassador of Iran to the 6: Portrait of Henri Matisse taking a stroll in front of the Chapelle Matisse in Federal Republic of Germany, and his German wife, Eva Karl. The Shah and Vence. Gelatin silver print, signed by the photographer lower right, beneath Princess Soraya married in 1951 and divorced in 1958 when it became appar- the image, and dated. 12-½ x 8-½ inches, [Vence, France: 1951]. Printed circa ent that she could not bear children. 1984. Very good. 16: Numerous large (approx 13 x 11 inch) gelatin silver prints, printed ca. 1984, Superb, large portrait of the artist in front of his famous Chapel. for reproduction in On Assignment, including funeral of Gustav V of Sweden; Avila, Spain; La Girotte Dam; Igor Sikorsky; Caliph of Spanish Morocco; 7: Photograph of a Russian Orthodox Church in Uzhgorad, Czechoslo- Aristotle Onassis; President Auriol of France pheasant hunting; Bohemia vakia. Gelatin silver print. Signed, captioned “Uzhgorod, sub-Carpathian Moser porcelain plant; Bernini statues; Russian soldier in Vienna, 1948; Ruthenia,” and dated 1937 by the photographer beneath the image. 13-⅜ x Bethlehem Steel works. 9-⅝ inches, [Uzhgorod, Czechoslovakia: 1937]. Printed circa 1984. Very good. Docketed on the rear with directions to the printer for reduction and place- 17: [Portfolio of LIFE appearances of the photography of Dimitri Kes- ment. Reproduced (evidently from this print) at p. 12 of On Assignment. sel, 1938-1956)]. Photographs throughout. Unpaginated. Folio, [c. 1956]. Green buckram with gilt “LIFE” in style of magazine title, and “DIMITRI 8: Photograph of an Iranian soldier standing guard on the Russo-Iranian KESSEL.” Slight soiling and rubbing to covers. A few leaves loose, some border. Gelatin silver print, signed and captioned “Iran, 1951” beneath the im- cellotape repairs. Very good. From the photographer’s collection, a portfolio age. 10-⅜ x 10-½ inches, [Iran: 1951]. Printed circa 1984. Very good. Docketed of his LIFE appearances from 1938-1956. Includes everything from Kessel’s on the rear with directions to the printer for reduction and placement; and photographs of Marines landing at Guantanamo, Cuba, to photos for a docketed in pencil. Reproduced (evidently from this print) at pp. 64-65 of On feature story on camisoles. Assignment. 9: Photograph of a group Iranian orphan boys, heads shaven, in line for $15,000 inspection. Gelatin silver print, signed and dated beneath the image by Kes- sel. 13-⅜ x 10-½ inches, [Teheran, Iran: 1951]. Printed circa 1984. Very good. Reproduced in On Assignment at pp. 186-87, with the caption: “In Teherran in 1951 orphans who live and work at a rehabilitation center line up for inspection. Their heads have been shaved in an efort to help clear up inspection.” 10: Group of 8 large color photographs of Venice. Each signed in ink below the image. Each approximately 13 x 9 inches, [Venice: 1950-1970?]. Printed circa 1984. Fine. Kessel wrote in On Assignment: “In sun, rain, fog, snow, photographing Ven- ice was, for me, a labor of love.” 11: Photograph of a rain-soaked Charles de Gaulle praying in the Cathedral of Notre Dame, Nice, 1948. Gelatin silver print. 11-⅜ x 10-⅜ inches, [Nice, France: 1948]. Printed circa 1984. Very good. Docketed on verso with indications to the printer for reduction and placement. 2014 rbms preconference | 25 (KNOWLES, John) Ginsburg, Max. Original cover art for the 1982 Bantam Books edition of A Separate Peace, by John Knowles. Oil on can- vas, signed lower left (“Max Gins- burg”). 40 x 24 in., ca. 1982. Framed. Fine. The original cover art for the 1982 Bantam Books edition of A Separate Peace, John Knowels’ classic coming- of-age novel set in a fctional New England boarding school during the outbreak of World War II. A Separate Peace was frst published to great acclaim in 1959 and has since become a mainstay of high school required reading lists. For generations of readers, Ginsburg’s cover is the image most closely associated with the novel — the main character Gene Forrester stands in the foreground while ghostly images of him and his friend Phineas climb a tree, with the Devon campus (based on Exeter) in the background. Ginsburg modelled both boys after a friend of his son, then a boarding school student of the same age as the characters in the novel. $24,000

26 | james cummins bookseller One of 56 Copies LAWRENCE, T.E. An Essay on Flecker. 4 pp. 8vo, Gar- den City, N.Y: Doubleday, Doran, 1937. First American edition, one of 56 copies to secure copyright. Original wrappers, fne copy. O'Brien A199. Poet and diplomat James Elroy Flecker (1884-1915) burned bright and briefy. He joined the diplomatic service in 1908, trained for two years, and was posted to Constantinople in 1910, “but in September a slight fever was diagnosed as tuberculosis and he returned to England to a sanatorium. He pronounced himself cured and … went back to Constantinople in March 1911, to be transferred in April to Beirut. Flecker was not a very efcient vice-consul” (ODNB). His frst formal collection of verse, The Bridge of Fire, was published in 1907, and The Golden Journey to Samar- kand was published in 1913. He died in Switzerland aged thirty-one. According to O'Brien, An Essay on Flecker was “written in 1925 with the intention of publication in a periodi- cal, [and] did not appear in print until 1937 when it was [frst] issued in [a] very limited edition of 30 copies [by the Corvinus Press in London]. The poet James Elroy Flecker had been a friend of Lawrence in Beirut before the war. None of the three appearances of this essay have been in trade editions.” $2,500

2014 rbms preconference | 27 state of the french government: louis xvi attempts reform, 1776-8 (LOUIS XVI) Etat des gouvernemens tant généraux que particuliers et des Etats Majors du Royaume déterminés par le Roi Louis XVI suivant l’Ordonnance de sa Majesté du 18 mars 1776. Manuscript book. Pages ruled in green and brown borders. [5], 101, [3] f. 8vo, 1778. Con- temporary dark brown morocco gilt, arms of Louis XVI on upper and lower covers within gilt ruled borders with feurs-de-lys at corners, spine gilt with feurs-de-lys, morocco label, a.e.g. Short start in foot of upper joint, else fne. Bookplates of Mortimer L. Schif, Henry du Rosnel, and three others. In a law dated 18 March 1776, Louis XVI attempted to rationalize the organization of provincial governments, and the present manuscript is the resulting report on the actual ranks and classes of the various provincial government ofcials. The principal governors are listed by name, with emoluments, and the ranks and numbers of subordinate ofcials are also noted. The principal- ity of Monaco, a French protectorate, gives genealogical information in addition to the names and fscal details. The government of Corsica is described as the last of the second class provinces (f. 99-101). The manuscript includes a table of contents for the provinces and concludes with six pages of fnancial summaries. This volume is of particular interest as it documents the French military and civil hierarchy on the eve of French involvement in the American Revolution. Notable fgures with connections to the French participation include the Maréchal le Duc de Broglie, governor of Metz, who refused Lafayette’s request to join. The Duc de Broglie was also patron of the Baron de Kalb. The Duc de Noailles, governor of the royal house at Saint-Germain-en- Laye, was the grandfather of Lafayette’s wife. The comte de Rochambeau, not named here, was appointed in 1776 as governor of Villefranche; his rank is given as Major-Commandant, 2,600 livres. Rare and beautiful and dense with information on French administrative practice under the ancien régime. $12,500

28 | james cummins bookseller french circumnavigation MARCHAND, Étienne. Voyage autour du Monde pendant les Années 1790, 1791, et 1792 … précédé d’une introduction historique; auquel on à joint des Recherches sur les Terres Australes de Drake, et un examen critique du Voyage de Rogeween: Par C.P. Claret Fleurieu. With folding tables, 16 folding maps in atlas volume. [4], viii, cci, 294; vii, 529; viii, 474; viii, 494; vii, 559; viii, 158 pp. 6 vols. 8vo (Atlas 4to), Paris: de L’Imprimerie de la République, an VI - an VIII [1798-1800]. First edition, octavo issue (Atlas volume is vol. IV of the quarto issue). Half green morocco and marbled boards, spines gilt, t.e.g. by E. Hering & Muller (signed at foot of spine of vol. I). Overall about very good, some traces of wear to extremities, front joint of vol. I tender, vols. IV & V with traces of damp to some pages, repair to lower board of vol. V. Atlas volume in recent quarter green morocco, preserving bookplate of William Beebe. Sabin 24751 & 44491; Hill 612; Howgego M 43; Lada-Mocarski 54; O’Reilly & Reitman, Tahiti, 618 OCLC: 43229498. Substantial account of the 1790-1792 circumnavigation by French creole Etienne Marchand (1755-1793), who sailed from Marseilles in the Solide, round Cape Horn to make landfall in the Marquesas, which he explored and claimed for France. The Solide bought furs from Indi- ans on the north American coast in the vicinity of the Queen Charlotte Islands, crossed the Pacifc via the Sandwich Islands and the Mari- anas, and reached Macao. Machand headed for the Île de France (Mauritius), where he had previously arranged to draw money, which proved to be unavailable following the fall of the French monarchy. He returned to a France in the throes of revolutionary tumult; March- and dies in 1793 and Charles Claret, comte de Fleuriel, another member of the Solide party, edited the material from this “pioneering commercial expedition.” Howgego also notes, “Unfortunately, [Marchand’s] voyage coincide with changes in the régime in France, with the result that this contributions to French imperi- alism were largely ignored.” This is the octavo issue of the publication; the atlas is in quarto format (also published as vol. IV of the quarto issue, as in the present copy). $3,000

2014 rbms preconference | 29 MARET, Russell. Interstices & Intersections or, An Autodidact Comprehends a Cube. 13 color illustrations. Folio, New York: Russell Ma- ret, 2014. First edition, one of seventy-fve numbered copies (of 92 total copies) printed on mouldmade Zerkall Litho 270gm paper. Double-sided leperello accordion binding, housed in a cloth-covered clamshell box. Fine. The book was designed, illustrated, and printed by the author and printer Russell Maret, including fve original typefaces: Gremo- lata, Cancellaresca Milanese, Saturn, Saturn Shadow, and Texto Portuguez. The text and the images were printed from photopoly- mer plates on a Vandercook Universal III proof press, and Daniel Kelm bound and boxed the book at the Wide Awake Garage in Easthampton, Massachusetts. $6,800

30 | james cummins bookseller mather on comets MATHER, Increase. Kometographia, or a Discourse Concerning Comets [bound with:] Heaven’s Alarm to the World [and:] The Latter Sign. [xii], 143, [1], [2, blank]; [viii], 38; [ii], 32 pp. Collation: A-I8 [blank leaf A1 lacking], K8; A-E8 [E8 supplied in facsimile]. 8vo, Boston: S[amuel] G[reen] for S[amuel] S[ewall]. And sold by J. Browning; Printed for Samuel Sewall. And to be sold by John Browning, 1683; 1682. First edition of Kometographia, bound with the second editions of Heaven’s Alarm and The Latter Sign. Prob- able early remboîtage of contemporary blind-ruled sheep, early ms title to spine, joints repaired, text browned and edgeworn, some light ink splatters throughout, Kometographia: paper repairs to margins of E1 & E6-E8; Latter Sign: fore-edge margin of D5 torn of, touching text, E7 margin repaired. Contemporary ownership signtaures and inscrip- tions of John Leech and daughter Ruth Leech (“Her Book Given to Her By her father May the 13”) on inside covers, in a custom half-calf slipcase and chemise. Sabin 46696; Evans 352; Church 682; Holmes 67A, 62B-2 (with “John Browning” variant imprint); Brüning 1560. All three of Mather’s sermons on comets, comprising the frst edition of Kometographia bound, as often found, with the second editions of Heaven’s Alarm and The Latter Sign. Kometographia is a quasi- scientifc treatise on the nature of comets, giving an historical account of comets and the events which they were supposed to have marked. Despite ultimately settling for a theological interpretation, Mather demonstrates a remarkable knowledge of contemporary astronomical theory, drawing on the works of Kepler, Brahe, Hevel, and Hook. “Both Halley & Newton completed their scientifc pioneering in regard to comets, after 1680. In writing his ‘Kometographia’ … Mather was a contemporary student of the same phenomena … He accepts some of the newest scientifc tenets, and his attempt to combine them with his religious views results in a position held by others for a century after him, and not wholly abandoned today. One must admit, perhaps, that in the matter of comets, Mather was in the front rank of his time” (Mur- dock, Increase Mather). Kometographia is bound with the two sermons — Heaven’s Alarm and The Latter Sign — mentioned on the title page and not always present. Heaven’s Alarm was a sermon preached on the appearence of a comet in 1680, and The Latter Sign was a sermon preached on the appearance of Halley’s Comet in 1682. $15,000

2014 rbms preconference | 31 one of 26 copies, true first — inscribed by merrill MERRILL, James. The Yellow Pages. 59 Poems. With pencil corrections by the author. Typed rectos only. 4to, [N.p.: no publisher, 1971]. First edition, one of only 26 copies. Stapled, in mailing envelope from Merrill. Usual toning. Fine. Hagstrom A25a. The rare staple-bound frst of 1971, consisting of only 26 copies. The author’s introductory note on the title page is dated St. Louis, xi.1971. This copy is inscribed by Mer- rill to Robert Wilson (proprietor of the Phoenix Book Shop) and includes the mailing envelope addressed in Merrill’s hand (from his Stonington address). The half dozen authorial corrections are to fx typographic errors. Rare. $7,500

32 | james cummins bookseller her first book MOORE, Marianne. Poems. 24 pp. 8vo, London: The Egoist Press, 1921. First edition of the author’s frst book. Original decorated wrappers, printed paper label on upper cover. Split along spine, otherwise fne. In quarter red morocco clamshell box, lettered in gilt lengthwise along spine. Ab- bott A1. Marianne Moore’s frst book, published in London without her knowledge by her friends Hilda Doolittle and Robert McAlm- on, at Egoist Press. Some of Moore’s most popular and enduring poems appear here: “To a Steamroller,” “The Fish,” “England,” and “Poetry,” with its now famous opening, “I, too, dislike it … “ $1,000

2014 rbms preconference | 33 “… it is too big for me to touch. i can’t afford it” MORRIS, William. Autograph Note, signed (“W Morris”), to bookseller and publisher Alfred Nutt, declining an ofer: “… it is too big for me to touch. I can’t aford it.” On half-penny postcard with Kelmscott House address. 3 x 5 inches, Kelmscott House, Upper Mall, Hammersmith: January 16, 1892. Old smudge, else fne. A short note to Alfred Trübner Nutt, publisher and scholar, son of bookseller and publisher David Nutt. Morris and Nutt shared an interest in Celtic history and sagas. $750

34 | james cummins bookseller (NANTUCKET) Manuscript deed of sale (November 14, 1685) of Nashowamoiasuk, now Neck Point of the Edgar- town Great Pond, by “Mr. Harrie, Indian of Nantucket” to John Cofn for six pounds. With addendum (dated August 20, 1693) on verso, in which “Mr. Jacob Washman” and “Natuckquanum” quit their claim to this land. 2 pp. manuscript deed of sale with later addendum (August 20, 1693) on verso. signed as witnesses by Nathaniel Starbuck and Mary Starbuck (“Signed, Sealed, & delivered / in presence of / Mary Starbuck / Nathaniell Starbuck”) and sealed with red wax; signed with “his mark” by “Harrie Wapaskowit, alias Mr. Harrie”; acknowledged before Gov- ernor Mayhew, June 2, 1686 and “Entered for the Records for Dukes County in fol: 14: this 5th of August, 1686. Matt. Mayhew Regit”; Docketed at lower margin “Nasha- wamoias: bounded by foot path”. Addendum SIGNED (“Jacob Washman”) and with “her mark” by Natuckqua- num. Folio, [Dukes County]: v.d., chiefy November 14, 1685. Crease marks, some soiling; one small hole and scuf- ing to verso. In double-sided frame. EARLY MARTHA’S VINEYARD LAND DEED, WITNESSED AND SIGNED BY NANTUCKET’S “GREAT WOMAN,” MARY COFFIN STARBUCK. A document of the utmost scarcity and interest, SIGNED by Nantucket’s spiritual leader and frst mother of the great Starbuck and Cofn whaling dynasties. More than any one person, Mary Cofn Starbuck shaped and defned the Nantucket spirit and character that would guide the island to the head of the 18th- and 19th-century whaling industry. Mary Starbuck (1646-1713) was the daughter of Tristam Cofn, one of the original purchasers of the island from Thomas Mayhew in 1659. At 17, in the frst colonial marriage on the island, she wed Nathaniel Starbuck, also a child of a principal proprietor, and Mary bore the island’s frst white child. The Starbucks established a lucrative trade with the Wampanoag Indians, arguably laying the economic foundation for the whaling industry (cf. Worth, “The First Whaling Merchant of Nantucket”). Between 1698 and 1704, three Quaker ministers visited Nantucket, and all noted in their accounts of the visits the extraordinary power of Mary’s character: “The islanders esteemed [her] as a Judge among them, for little was done without her” (John Richardson, quoted ANB). She was “a wise dicscreet woman … in great Reputation throughout the Island for her Knowledge in Matters of Religion, and an ora- cle among them on that Account, insomuch that they would not do anything without her Advice and Consent therein” (Thomas Story, ibid.). Mary was initially resistant to the Quakers’ advances, but in a moment of tremendous import for Nantucket’s future, she was moved to tears by Richardson’s preaching and converted. “It was Mary Starbuck’s conversion to Quakerism that established the unique fusion of spirituality and covetousness that would make possible Nantucket’s rise as a whaling port” (Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea, p. 8). As Mary went so went Nantucket—she became nantucket’s frst Quaker minister and opened her home as a Friend’s meeting house, while the Quaker religion grew to be the dominant sect on the island. Documents in Mary’s hand are of tremendous scarcity — only one of her letters is known to survive and her trading account book is property of Nantucket’s Peter Folger Museum and Library. $45,000

2014 rbms preconference | 35 large paper copy for presentation, with letter signed by pepys [PEPYS, Samuel]. Memoires of the State of the Royal Navy of England, for Ten Years Determin’d December 1688. Engraved frontispiece portrait by R. White after Sir Godfrey Kneller, and with the folding Table of Accounts (measuring 12 by 15 inches when unfolded). Title page printed in red and black. [2], 214, [18] pp. 8vo, London: Printed, 1690. First edition, the issue for presentation, without commercial imprint, reading “Printed Anno MDCXC.” Large paper copy (7-¼ x 4-⅝ inches). Contemporary calf, spine gilt. Extremities rubbed, joints starting. Paper faw at bottom margin of L6, not afecting text. Small splits to folds of letter along left margin; cellotape staining along left margin of letter. In custom red half morocco slipcase and chemise. Wing P 1449; Pforzheimer 793; Hazlitt II 712; Grolier, Wither to Prior 662; Rosenbach 19:591. A cornerstone in the history of the British Royal Navy by one of its spiritual godfathers, Samuel Pepys, who served as Secretary of the Royal Navy under Charles II, and who was dismissed from that same ofce in 1688 upon the accession of William and Mary. Written upon his reappointment to the ofce by James II: Pepys was commissioned to report on the condition of the Navy, which, after “fve years of uninterruped Peace” and incompetent administration, had been reduced “to a Condition of being with difculty kept above Water.” Allthough overshadowed by his famous diary, this book is Pepys’s only acknowledged publication, and one upon which “he lavished a great deal of thought and care. It represents a side of Pepys’s life which is apt to be ignored” (Pforzheimer). It was Pepys’s report and subsequent reforms that re-established the primacy of the British hold upon the seas in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Without Pepys, no victory at Trafalgar. “The administration of the Admiralty under Pepys is still regarded as a model for order and economy” (David Hume). Renowned diarist Samuel Pepys, who served as Secretary to the Admiralty during the reigns of Charles II and James II, was “one of the great inspectors … He was compulsive about tallies, not least of his own assets as well as the kingdom’s.” Further, throughout his career Pepys held to “his view that the accumulation of knowledge was the pillar, not just of understanding but of power” (Schama II:262). These aspects of Pepys’ character are evident in this scarce frst edition of his Memoires—“the diarist’s only acknowledged publication. Upon this he lavished a great deal of thought and care” (Pforzheimer 793). First made clerk of the acts (i.e., secretary) to the Navy Board in 1660, “Pepys was appointed the frst secretary of the Admiralty in 1673. Though out of ofce in 1679-84, a victim of the ‘Exclusion’ agitation, his return saw Pepys become the crown’s minister for the navy until the Glorious Revolution. Then he was forced from ofce as too closely associated with James II. For all his contributions to the navy’s well-being, however, Pepys has become much the best-known Englishman of the 17th century through his diary, or ‘Journal,’ kept in shorthand and complete secrecy,” and left unpublished until 1825 (Cannon, 742). With a Letter, signed (“S Pepys” beneath the body of the document), about naval matters, reading, in full: “In pursuance of an order from his Royall Highness the Lord High Adml. dated of ye 13th instant. These are to pray & require you according to ye respective duties of your places to cause a false keel, and a gripe [i.e., a grip] to be built upon his Ma[jest]y’s yacht ye Henrietta, and that she be also ftted with all things necessary before she comes out of ye Dock. And for so doing this shall be your warrant. Dated at the Navy Ofce this 14th of May 1669.” Letter docketed on verso. $7,500 36 | james cummins bookseller powell on fitzgerald, british alcoholics, hollywood, his work: an archive POWELL, Anthony. Collection of 19 Typed Letters, signed (“Anthony Powell”, and later, “Tony”), to Tom Dardis, his American paperback publisher. With autograph corrections and post-scripts to some letters. 4to and smaller, “The Chantry, Nr Frome, Som- erset,” [England]: 1965-1991. Condition generally fne. A revealing collection of letters from Powell to his American publisher and friend, Tom Dardis, who, as editor-in-chief of Berkely Publishing Company until 1972, published the frst American paperback edition of A DAnce to the Music of Time. In his frst letter to Dardis (25 May 1965), Powell thanks his American publisher, sending the “four Japanese novels,” mentioning in particular Tanizaki and Mishima, and expresses his pleasure in their lunch together in New York. In his next letter (4 June 1965), Powell thanks Dardis for sending more Japanese books and for sending a proof of the cover for A Question of Upbringing(“just what is required for the Music of Time series … I have now read all the Japanese books and fnd Tanizaki the most sympathetic. Do you think the Mishi- ma owes a bit to The Old Man and the Sea? I shouldn’t wonder”). In subsequent letters, he likes the cover for The Buyer’s Market, sends extracts from reviews of his work (mostly American), recommends Alison Lurie, arranges to meet Dardis in London, and tries to stop publication of the volume in Twayne’s “English Author Series” (by Neil Brennan) for its numerous factual errors. Dardis was also the author of several works after leaving publishing, and much interesting content of the subsequent letters involves Dardis’s own projects: writers in Hollywood (Some Time in the Sun); alcoholism in American literature (The Thirsty Muse); Horace Liveright (Firebrand); Buster Keaton (Keaton: The Man Who Wouldn’t Lie Down). Powell himself tried without luck to land a job in Hollywood in 1937, where in fact he met F. Scott Fitzgerald; in his letter to Dardis of July 1973, he writes regarding “your ‘Writers in Hollywood,’ I did a fairly detailed account of the Fitzgerald episode, which appeared in The Times here … It would be worth your getting hold of a copy (last year’s), which gives the whole story …” Dardis did indeed provide an account of the Powell-Fitzerald encounter, and sent Powell a photocopy of the proof, for his corrections. That photocopy is included in this archive, with Powell’s extensive manuscript corrections. Regarding alcoholism, Powell compares Brits with Americans: “Good British writers are apt to be by no means total abstainers, but I should think you were right in supposing the matter to less disastrous in bulk than in the U.S. It was of course the whole stock-in-trade of [Malcolm] Lowry (of whom I am not an admirer), and, as you mention, Dylan Thomas and Henry Green could also be included. Evelyn Waugh put it back extremely hard always …” Powell’s letters continue with many references to Dardis’s projects, with remarks on Buster Keaton, Irving Thalberg (“what a shit”), Horace Liveright, Donald Friede, Faulkner, et. al., etc., and much of the interest of this correspondence lies in his observation on American subjects. At the same time, Powell continuously updates his friend on the course of his own life and works in progress, thus providing an essential primary source for his biography. unpublished. $7,500

2014 rbms preconference | 37 Choice Manuscript Qur’an Qur’an [Koran] Manuscript on polished paper, 17-line naskhi script on gilt rules within gilt borders, with 3 double-page polychrome gilt ornamental openings, at beginning, center, and closing; text fully vocalized in black with catchwords, reading marks in red, gold aya markers, surah headings within blue and gilt panels, ornamental sectional markers, ashura and juz’ markers in ink, some marginal corrections in a fne hand. 315 f. Complete. 9-½ x 5-¾ inches, [Persia: late 18th century C.E.]. Nineteenth-century painted foral boards, fore edge guard, indigo painted pastedowns. Spine and guard hinges with old repairs. Near fne copy with generous margins; the double-page openings interleaved with protective blanks. Modern bookplate.

Beautiful and imposing manuscript Qur’an, nicely ornamented and in a fne bold hand. $ 18,500

38 | james cummins bookseller (ROYAL NAVY) [Manuscript Record of Admis- sions to Haslar Royal Naval Hospital.] “Prescrip- tion Book of the 82 Ward from September 1, 1787” [Cover title]. Partly printed tables accomplished in manuscript. 164 pp (numbered at head of page), 5 pp. of index. Interleaved with blotting paper. 8vo, Portsmouth: September 6 to December 12, 1787. Contemporary half vellum and marbled boards, partly printed label on upper cover, spine numbered 82 in ink. Foot of spine defective, boards soiled, internally clean and sound and legible. Custom morocco-backed slipcase and chemise. A detailed manuscript record of men admitted to Haslar Hospital from Royal Navy ships based at Portsmouth during the period September to December 1787, recording complaints such as ague, rheumatism, scurvy, fux, “Liverpool” fever, hernia, gravel in the bladder, and lunacy. The Prescription book contains printed tables with column headings for Ship’s Name, person’s name, Time of Entry, Quality [rank], Disorder, Medi- cines, and, surprisingly, Diet. Entries are in ink, in a consistent hand, with references to continuation pages, and noting transfer (“to Surgery” or “to 81”) or discharge (“D”). The entries record admission for seamen from the following ships: Barfeur, Magnifcent, Ardent, Dido, Triumph, Irresistible, Colossus, Ganges, Gorgon, Goliath, and HMS Victory, among others. The Victory was in Portsmouth from 6 October to 5 December and never out of harbor; the ship’s log records three men “Sent to hospital” on 19th November. Pages 88-89 of this prescription book identify Pat. Mulligan from the Victory, and his Disorder: “Cough.” An illuminating documentary record of the shore- based medical care aforded to seamen in the fghting age of sail. $4,000

2014 rbms preconference | 39 SEEGER, Pete. Typed Letter, signed (“Pete Seeger”), to Frank Deodene. 1 page on onion skin paper. 4to, “en Route”: 1964. Some soiling. A letter to a librarian then and later a bookseller Frank Deodene in which Seeger writes of the importance of books and libraries, and his early reading habits. Seeger describes the process of reading thus: “one can hold a dialogue in one’s head with the author, agreeing or disagreeing with him, comparing his experience to one’s own. Thus the book can be a springboard to one’s own thought and action.” Starting at the age of 11 Seeger’s reading is revealing: the naturalist Ernest Thompson Seton, one of the founders of the Boy Scouts of America, came frst; in his 20s John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath; and by the time his version of “Goodnight Irene” topped the pop charts in 1950 he had moved on to Berthold Brecht. Equally important to Seeger are “the hard- working librarians of the world, who keep this evergrowing mountain of printed pages in some semblance of order.” The letter was likely written from Europe; Seeger recorded a concert in Prague in March 1964 after touring Australia in 1963. $750

40 | james cummins bookseller “liberty is dead!” — political tract by shelley SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. “We Pity the Plumage, but Forget the Dying Bird.” An Address to the People on the Death of Princess Char- lotte. By The Hermit of Marlow. 16 pp. 8vo, [London: Reprinted for Thomas Rodd, Great Newport Street (Compton & Ritchie, Printers, Middle Street, Cloth Fair), c. 1843]. First edition. Sewn as issued. In half blue morocco slipcase and chemise. Fine. Ashley V, p. 64; Granniss Shelley, pp. 43-44; Wise Shelley, p. 46. According to Wise: “In 1843, when advertising the present pam- phlet for sale, Rodd asserted that it was a facsimile reprint of an alleged original edition of which the author had printed twenty copies in 1816. No example of this mysterious original has ever been unearthed; no trace of it beyond Rodd’s own statement has ever been discovered; and no mention of any kind either of its printing or distribution is to be found in the correspondence of Shelley or any of his friends. My own opinion is that no original ever existed, that the private impression of twenty copies was a myth, and that Rodd’s so-called facsimile reprint of 1843 is in fact the actual princeps of the Address.” Political essay arguing that the death of Princess Charlotte in childbirth was “a private grief,” while the execution of three weavers for high treason in Der- byshire was a national tragedy. “The execution of Brandreth, Ludlam, and Turner is an event of quite a diferent character from the death of Princess Charlotte … It is a national calamity that we endure men to rule over us, who sanction for whatever ends a conspiracy which is to arrive at its purpose through such a frightful pouring forth of human blood and agony. … Liberty is dead!” Uncommon. $2,750

2014 rbms preconference | 41 hoe copy of shelley’s verse drama (SLAVONIC) Collection of Prayers and Religious Quota- SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. The Cenci. A Tragedy. 104 pp. 8vo tions, in Slavonic. Manuscript, with notes and capitals in red. (9-⅛ x 5-¾ inches: 232 x 146 mm.), [Livorno], Italy: Printed for 88 pp. 12mo (135 x 85 mm.), Russia: 1869. Contemporary black C. and J. Ollier Vere Street, Bond Street, 1819. First edition, blindstamped calf, the upper cover with a roundel of a lion one of 250 copies, without initial blank. Bound in full green fghting a unicorn with Russian inscription “Thus do body morocco, gilt spine, t.e.g., by Riviere & Sons, professionally and soul fght against each other as two wild beasts,” within rebacked in invisible fashion, spine gilt (very slightly sunned, scallop border, in marbled chemise and orange slip-case. else fne). Bookplate of Robert Hoe and Blairhame. Granniss 50; Ashley V 69; not in Tinker. A collection of personal thoughts and prayers opening with the Trebnik of Patriarch Iosafat. On the penultimate page First edition of Shelley’s dramatization of this dark tale of the last paragraph reads “I am sending you instead of prayers parricide, child abuse, and incest — based on actual events this little book …” ending with the abbreviated name “Gr. I. — and arguably the most enduring Romantic verse-play. Evfr.” (possibly for Grigorii Ivanovich Evrasov) dated 1869. Only 250 copies were printed, according to Shelley himself. $2,250 According to Grannis, “With the exception of Queen Mab, The Cenci is the only one of Shelley’s works which reached a second edition during his lifetime …” On the other hand, the play was never staged until the Shelley Society produced it on the occasion of Robert Browning’s birthday, on May 7, 1886. $7,500

42 | james cummins bookseller (STRAUSS, Lewis L) Strauss, Lewis L. Correspondence related to nuclear physics. Various places: 1919-1969. Housed in two clamshell boxes, quarter morocco over cloth boards, spine with fve raised bands, with “Lewis L. Strauss” and “Correspondence related to Nuclear Physics” stamped in gold. Fine. An archive of letters and documents on atomic energy and military research from the fles of Lewis L. Strauss (1896-1974), Sec- retary to Herbert Hoover, 1917-1919; chairman, United States Atomic Energy Commission, 1946-1950, and 1953-1958; Secretary of Commerce, 1958-1959. He was a major fgure in the development of nuclear energy and served under future President Hoover and Presidents Truman and Eisenhower. He was also directly involved in the investigation of Robert Oppenheimer, which resulted in the latter’s loss of security clearance. Strauss began his career in American politics as Herbert Hoover’s private secretary. The earliest letter in the collection, dated August 7, 1919, is from Hoover and reads in part, “My dear Strauss, Letters are poor expressions of one’s feelings. If I could write a letter that conveyed the sense of afection I have and the appreciation I have, I would do it. You have given from slender means two years of voluntary service to the American people … While you make the best private secretary that any public man has had during this war your abilities are too great to remain in that groove except during a period of national stress where every red blooded man must make sacrifce …” During World War II Strauss served in the Navy, eventually attaining the rank of Rear Admiral. After the war he served as both a committee member of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) and in 1953, was made Chairman of the AEC by Dwight D. Eisen- hower. Among the many friends and colleagues that Strauss made during these years were the leading politicians and scientists involved in the development and administration of US nuclear energy—as is evident in his correspondence contained in this collection. Strauss’s position placed him in contact with the leading physicists of the early years of nuclear research and his correspondence helps document the evolution of nuclear physics. A letter from Leo Szilard, May 27, 1938, provides information on experiments to kill the trichinae in pork at slaughterhouses via X-Ray dosages. In a letter dated July 17, 1939, Niels Bohr accepts a position to work on the Brasch-Lang generator. The archive includes important material relating to technical issues and early research, including

2014 rbms preconference | 43 the contributions of Ernest Lawrence, inventor of the cyclotron, in a series of autograph letters from the 1958 United States-Soviet Conference to Study the Methods of Detecting Violations of a Possible Agreement on Suspension of Nuclear Tests. In a very early, detailed memorandum to the Secretaries of War and the Navy of 1945, Harry Truman addresses U. S. government involvement in nuclear policy, and argues for rigorous government control of all fssionable materials and any patents issued on any processes for the production of fssionable materials. The archive includes valuable information on post-war military research with numerous documents relating to the various plans to reorganize U.S. military research in the aftermath of World War II. Highlights include Charles Wilson’s fnal report of the Committee on Post- War Research signed by thirteen leading military, scientifc and government fgures and a letter by Robert Millikan discussing the interaction of scientists and government in post-war research. Material relating to Robert Oppenheimer’s security clearance includes a draft memorandum by Eisenhower, with annotations by Eisenhower and Strauss, discussing allegations that Oppenheimer actively impeded the development of the hydrogen bomb, as well as letters on the Oppenheimer case by John Foster Dulles, Warren Burger and Eisenhower. The heart of the political material in the archive is the substantial group of over thirty letters from Eisenhower, with whom Strauss maintained a long friendship. The letters touch on a wide range of nuclear issues including peaceful uses of atomic energy and nuclear testing. There are three lengthy letters signed in full as President approving atomic energy agreements with Canada, Sweden and Thailand, which document early American eforts to infuence and promote the use and development of atomic energy on an international scale. Eighteen letters to Strauss from John Foster Dulles, Eisenhower’s Secretary of State, 1953-1959, cover virtually every aspect of nuclear diplomacy including the creation of the International Atomic Energy Agency, nuclear cooperation with Europe, nuclear testing, disarmament, and the development of nuclear weapons by Euro- pean nations.

The archive includes correspondence to Strauss as follows:

Herbert Hoover: 1 ALS, 1 ms note Harry S Truman: 2 TLS Franklin D Roosevelt: 1 TLS John Foster Dulles: 18 TLS Dwight D Eisenhower: 35 TLS (some being Strauss’s letter returned with DDE’s initials) Lyndon Johnson: 1 carbon from LLS Niels Bohr: 6 TLS Margrethe Bohr: 1 TLS Leo Szliard: 1 TLS Charles Wilson: 1 TLS, with signature of Karl T. Compton Robert A. Millikan: 13 TLS, 2 Telegrams from LLS, 1 ALS Robert P. Patterson: 1 TLS James Forrestal: 2 TLS, 1 TLS from Robert P. Patterson for Forrestal William J. Brennan, Jr.: 1 TLS Ernest O. Lawrence: 3 ALS Warren Burger: 1 TLS John McGruder: 1 TLS Richard E. Byrd: 1 TLS Enrico Fermi: 1 TLS $55,000

44 | james cummins bookseller (TOBACCO) [Blocquel, Simon]. Tabaciana. Recueil intéressant dédié aux tabacomanes et aux antagonistes du cigare, de la pipe et de la tabatière, par Ana-gramme Blismon. vi, [7]-288 pp. 16mo, Paris: Delarue, [1861]. First edition, variant issue. Contemporary quarter brown morocco over marbled boards, green vellum french tips, spine gilt, signed L. Pouillet. Near fne. Arents 1696. Rare frst edition of Simon Blocquel’s (1760-1863) history of tobacco and advice for its use. Sections include a discussion of its cultivation, its introduction to Europe, government control, the advantages and disadvantages of its use, and “Le Code du Cigare, ou la politesse du fumeur.” The Arents catalog identifes two issues of the frst edition, this being the issue without the folding plate, but printed in the same year. Blocquel had no less than seven pseudonyms; he wrote on domestic economy for women, gastronomy, travel, history, white magic, and literature. $1,500

2014 rbms preconference | 45 travelling library (TRAVELLING LIBRARY) Bell’s Edition of the Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill. 109 vols. 12mo (5 x 3-⅛ inches), London: Printed for John Bell British Library Strand, 1777-1782. Bound in contemporary tree calf, gilt spine, with green leather author label and red number label (1-109) and red label stamped in gilt “Bell’s Poets of G. Britain” on each spine, greek key scroll at outer margins of the upper and lower covers, green marbled endpapers, edges yellow. Laid into two contemporary wooden cases of book form (18-¼ x 12 x 4-¼ inches), lined with green marbled paper (matching the endpapers of each volume) and brown baize, with removable 16-½ x 2-½ inch central wooden marble paper covered post in each case. The cases lacking most of their original leather covering, some of the volumes within with very minor loss. A rare and interesting survival. Such sets, with their durable boxes, were intended as recreational reading for travellers, and were often taken on the Grand Tour. Given the generally crisp interior condition of the volumes, the owner of this set was either exceptionally fastidious and careful, or did not use them. Authors in the set include Chaucer, Spenser, Donne, Milton, Dryden, Swift, Pope, and Gay. $12,500

46 | james cummins bookseller WEBER, Max & Helaine BLUM. Large archive of original art, sketches, studies and notebooks by Max Weber and Helaine Blum. Very good, in general. Large archive of original art, sketches, studies and notebooks by Max Weber and Helaine Blum. The collection documents the working student-teacher relationship between the two artists — with many of the notebooks having been used in Weber’s lessons to Blum. The works by Weber, both sketches and fnished, show his move from the abstraction prevalent in his early work to his later representational style. Blum’s work included here encompasses her lesson notebooks as well as sketches and studies used in preparation for her sculptural work. In addition, the collection includes 2 notebooks ascribed by Helaine Blum to George Grosz, and a large oil portrait by Blum’s daughter Maryann, as well as two books on art given by Weber to Blum; one with an intimate inscription, the other with his notes and extra-illustrated with original sketches. Max Weber (1881-1961) immigrated to the United States with his family at the age of 10. He travelled extensively before returning to New York to become integral to the Cubist movement in America. Helaine Blum (c. 1910- 2010), was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to a wealthy family. She travelled extensively throughout Europe before fnally settling in New York to focus on painting and sculpture, under the tutelage of Max Weber and William Zorach. Her relationship with Weber became particularly close – the two corresponded for decades on matters personal and professional, including their thoughts on art, creativity, travel, and social and religious issues (pri- marily Judaism). Blum enjoyed tremendous success as a sculptor, producing bronze busts of the great luminar- ies of her day, including Albert Einstein, Linus Pauling, Max Weber, and David Ben-Gurion. A brief inventory of the collection follows. Max Weber: 16 sketchbooks with studies, sketches and teaching notes; approximately 131 loose works, including still lifes, nudes and fgure studies, and abstracts, executed in a variety of media (graphite, charcoal, watercol- or); 13 portraits done in a variety of media, including one portrait of Helaine Blum; 5 framed pieces, including abstracts and still lifes. Helaine Blum: 5 sketchbooks, some of which were used during lessons with Max Weber; approximately 91 loose works, including street scenes, still lifes, fgure studies, landscapes and sketches used in preparation for her bust of David Ben Gurion, executed in a variety of media (oil on board, graphite, charcoal, watercolor); 3 framed pieces.

2014 rbms preconference | 47 George Grosz: 2 sketchbooks, one with approximately 51 sketches, the other with 38 pages of drawings and sketches Maryann Blum: large oil portrait of George C. Marshall WEBER, Max. Essays on Art. [New York] : [Printed by William Edwin Rudge], 1916. First Edition. Original illustrated wraps; pp. 77. Inscribed by the artist, “To Helaine with love eternal from Max.” Yapp edges lightly wrinkled and chipped, otherwise fne. EINSTEIN, Carl. Negerplastik. Munchen: Kurt Wolf Verlag, 1920. First Edition. Illustrated paper over boards, cloth backstrip, lettered in black; pp. xxvii (text), [3], 108 b/w plates. Boards a bit scufed and scratched. With Max Weber’s ownership signature on the front free end paper and his handwritten notes and sketches in the margins. Also includes a laid-in sketch by Weber with his notes. A fascinating look at a sculptor’s engagement with his medium, its variety and history, Weber comments on 35 of the sculptures shown here — “how elemental!!!” he says of one, “more real and living expression than the style of Brancusi or even Modigliani” he remarks of another. He also sometimes echoes the images with a sketch of his own, or subjects them to careful scrutiny, as indicated by measurements or lines breaking the piece up into smaller parts. Most of his notes are in the wide margins, with a few penciled direct on the image. $45,000

48 | james cummins bookseller WOLLSTONECRAFT, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With strictures on Political and Moral Subjects. Preliminaries complete but misbound; half title present. xvi, [1], 18-340 pp. 8vo, Printed at Boston: by Peter Edes for Thomas and Andrews, 1792. Probable Second American edition. There were two editions done in 1792 (Philadelphia and Boston). Contemporary mottled sheep, red morocco label. Joints split, head of spine with minor loss, text with some toning, still very good. Signed James Ralston 1799 in several places. Morocco-backed folding box. Colby Library Quarterly p. 256; Evans 25054; Clarkin 168; ESTC W2450. For the frst edition: PMM 242.

Tallyrand’s new system of national education was proposed to the French Assembly in 1791. In it only males would be educated. This inspired Wollstonecraft to write this work to show the need for the education of both sexes. Wollstonecraft’s theory, as defned in a letter to Tallyrand, was “built on this simple principle that, if woman be not prepared by education to become the companion of man, she will stop the progress of knowledge, for truth must be common to all.” Her work was “a rational plea for a rational basis to the relation between the sexes” (PMM). “She was the frst to fuse experience, intellect, and emotion to attack the sexual basis of social and religious tra- dition and to bring to issue to life as a philosophically based and practical reform to be incorporated forthwith in a specifc society” (Sunstein, A Diferent Face: The Life of Mary Wollstonecraft, p. 207). Published in the same year as the London frst edition. $3,500

2014 rbms preconference | 49 the building, the business, the family: a woolworth archive (WOOLWORTH, Frank Winfeld) Collection of autograph and printed material from the archives of F.W. Woolworth, regarding his business and its history, the Woolworth Building, and his family. [New York]: 1893- 1927. Generally in very good condition. See, John P. Nichols’ Skyline Queen. A remarkable archive pertaining to the retail (fve and dime) pioneer, Frank Winfeld Woolworth (April 13, 1852 – April 8, 1919), who opened his frst store in 1879, and who, by 1911, had incorporated 586 stores in America, England, and Europe into the F. W. Woolworth Company. In 1913, Woolworth built the landmark Woolworth Building in lower Manhattan, at the time the tallest building in the world, at a cost of $13.5 million. The current archive documents not only the history of the business and the fnancial history of the Woolworth Building itself, but also contains important records and memorabilia from the Woolworth family itself. An archive of vital signifcance to the history of New York City and its architecture, as well as the history and development of international retail chain stores such as that pioneered by Woolworth.

BUSINESS HISTORY: • An extraordinary Autograph Notebook kept by Frank Woolworth himself (approximately 6 x 4 inches), signed on front “F.W. Woolworth 280 Broadway, New York. U.S.A, … If this book is lost - I wish the fnder would send it to above address and send your name also. F.W. Woolworth.” First page dated Feb 17, 1893. [122] pp., consisting of his notes on prices of various products (especially china) and sources, shipment dates, and destination stores (coded with Woolworth’s unique numbering system). An intimate glimpse of Woolworth’s methods. • 4 printed spreadsheets Actual Net Expenses for Year 1897, 1899, 1900, 1901, listing expenses for each Woolworth stores. 17 x 14 inches each. • Printed sheet dated 1899-1900 listing all FWW stores Lancaster-Third Avenue 8-1/2 x 22 inches. Sheet dated 1900-1901 listing all FWW stores Lancaster-Plainfeld (NJ) 8-½ x 22 inches. • Manuscript Statement for 1903 on F.W. Woolworth Stationery. • Carbon copy of printed Inventory March 15 & April 15, 1904. • F. W. Woolworth Co. Fortieth Anniversary Souvenir 1879-1919. Illus. 32 pp. Wrappers. • F.W. Woolworth Trafc Book. 4to February 1, 1927. 31 pages. Green cloth. • Woolworth’s First 75 Years. The Story of Everybody’s Store 1879-1954. 62, [2] pp. Specially bound in red cloth.

THE WOOLWORTH BUILDING: • Schuyler, Montgomery. The Woolworth Building. Frontispiece signed by artist E. Horter, with his illustrations throughout. 4to. New York, Privately Printed, 1913. First edition, one of 1000 done for Frank W. Woolworth. Boards, in original box. • Dinner given to Cass Gilbert Architect by Frank W. Woolworth in the Woolworth Buiding April 24, MCMXIII. Photographs of

50 | james cummins bookseller Gilbert & Woolworth, engraving of building. Printed by Munder- Thomsen 8vo, NY, 1913. Blue boards, a.e.g. Very fne in original glassine and original box. • Dinner given to Cass Gilbert Architect by Frank W. Woolworth. F. Hopkinson Smith Presiding. 2 tipped in color plates of the building, portraits of Woolworth, Gilbert, Hopkinson Smith, Louis J. Horow- itz (Builder), William Winter, Hon. W.U. Hensel, Mr Patrick Francis Murphy. 140 pp. Red cloth. • Another copy of the above, SPECIALLY BOUND FOR FRANK W. WOOL- WORTH (With his name stamped in name on front pastedown) IN FULL BLUE MOROCCO, neatly rebacked. • The Cathedral of Commerce. Woolworth Building New York. Il- lustrated. NY, 1916. 4to. Deluxe edition bound in full purple morocco, with wrappers bound in for Woolworth. Printed by Munder-Thom- sen. • Photograph of Celebration of the Woolworth Building (233 Broad- way) dinner, specifcally of the presentation of Woolworth’s silver bowl to Cass Gilbert, the Architect. 1936. • Ofcial Award Ribbon. Panama Pacifc International Exposition San Francisco 1915. 17 x 3-¼ inches. Broadway Park Place Co. awarded for being the Highest and Finest Ofce Building in the World. • A substantial archive of over 100 documents and letters (mostly Woolworth’s lawyers and real estate agents) pertaining to the f- nances and management of the Woolworth Building itself, as well as a few other properties.

FAMILY HISTORY: • Original letters of Administration of the Estate of F.W. Woolworth granted to: Helena W. McCann, Jessie W. Donahue; Herbert T. Par- son. May 24, 1919. FWW died without signing his newest will, so his handicapped wife received the estate under the provision of his older 1889 will. • Indenture for house in Rodman, NY. 1859. • Photos of FW Woolworth and wife. • WOOLWORTH, Frank W. WAR! WAR! WAR! Letters from Southern France and Switzerland written in 1914. [New York] David Nelke, 1917. 76 pp. WOOLWORTH’S OWN COPY. Bound in full blue morocco with red morocco doublures with the Woolworth Crest, a.e.g. bound by MacDonald. In slipcase. • 5 panoramic photo albums of Oyster Bay Estate of Frank Wool- worth’s daughter Helena Woolworth McCann Sunken Orchard. • Album of 13 tipped in folio photographs of the interior of the Houses of Mr. and Mrs. C.E.F. McCann in New York and Oyster Bay. Bound in full green morocco, moiré silk endpapers by J. O. Wilson New York & Paris. • Cornell, John and Josiah. American Families Historic Lineage. Illustrated. 372, 366, 324 pp. 3 vols. Folio, New York: National Ameri- cana Society, no date (ca. 1914). Number 33 of 50 copies of the Etoile d’Argent Edition. Bound in full navy blue crushed levant with the Woolworth family coat-of-arms in gilt and multi-color leather onlay on the upper board of each volume; moiré silk doublures and endleaves; all edges gilt; enclosed in a navy blue straight-grain goat- skin covered wooden slip case; by MacDonald, N.Y. $30,000

2014 rbms preconference | 51 WORDSWORTH, W[illiam and Samuel Taylor Coleridge]. Lyrical Ballads, With Pastoral and Other Poems … Vol I. Third Edition … [… Vol II. Second Edition]. [iv], lxiv, [2], 200, [4]; [iv], 250 pp. 2 vols. 8vo, London: Printed for T.N. Longman and O. Rees … by Biggs ad Cottle, 1802. Third edition. 19th-century half red morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt-lettered. Rubbed, with some scufng to spines. Contemporary ownership signatures to front paste-down. Bookplate. Healey 12 & 13; Tinker 2332. The rare second two-volume edition of Lyri- cal Ballads. With several important changes from the 1800 edition — the Preface is expanded by 20 pages, Coleridge’s “The Dun- geon” and Wordsworth’s “A Character” and “Lines Written Near Richmond” are with- drawn, and the appendix on poetic diction is included for the frst time. $6,500

52 | james cummins bookseller stalag 17b (WORLD WAR II) Identity documents and ephemera of Sgt.Gerald McDowell, U.S.A.F. as prisoner of war in Stammlager XVII B [Stalag 17B], Krems, Austria, 1943-1945. 4to and smaller, [Krems, Austria: 1943-1945]. Some toning, overall very good. Identity documents and ephemera of American Air Force tail gunner Sgt. Gerald McDowell (1923-2002). McDowell and the fight crew of the B17 nicknamed Hell’s Belle survived being shot down over Germany in 1943 and were interned at Stalag 17B in Austria. At the war’s end, the camp guards marched American prisoners west to meet the U.S. Armored Division at Braunau and avoid the Soviet troops occupying eastern Austria. McDowell wrote a memoir of his war experiences, A Tail Gunner’s Tale (1991). Stalag 17 gained notoriety from the 1953 Hollywood flm of the same name staring William Holden.

Comprising: 1. Camp identifcation document for Gerald McDowell, no. 100478, with two photographs (side and profle, with chalk board identity number). Old fold (splt repaired on verso). With corresponding stamped metal badge. Illustrated at p. 114 of his book. 2. [Broadside:] “Kgf.-M.-Stammlager XVII B. Teillager der Luftwafe. Lagerführung. Gneixendorf, June 11th 1944. Warning ! 1.) Any P.O.W. touching or crossing warning wire during day-time will be fred upon immediately. …” Stencil printed, signed in ink by “E—” above stencil legend: Hauptmann and 1st Lagerofzier. Old folds. Tipped onto card. Illustrated at p. 90 of his book. Of extreme rarity. 3. BATCH, D.B. [Pencil portrait of Gerald McDowell] Signed and dated lower right, D.B. Batch, P.O.W., 13/1/45, Krems, Austria. 9 x 6 inches. Tipped onto card. Framed. 4. Recipes for “D-Bar Spread”, “Chocolate Cream Pudding”, “Gallop”, and other P.O.W. dishes, using D-Bars, C-Rations, “Jerry” sugar, etc. 5 small cards, closely written on versos of typed prisoner ID fches (4 x 2 inches). Tipped onto card. Toned. 5. PHELPER, Ben H. Kriegie Memories [title from cover]. Photographs and handwritten text. [64] pp. [Aurora, Illinois: Printed by Barker printing Co., 1946]. Blue leather grained cloth, upper cover titled in gilt. OCLC: 85169189 (4 copies). Inscribed by the author on the frst blank, “Jerry: May you always be free and happy. Good luck, Ben”. Rare privately printed account of experiences inside Stalag 17B, by “Luftgangster No. 113204,” with photographs of camp life and of the march towards liberation in May 1945. With a dozen annotations by McDowell, usually in red ink, indicating himself or other fellow inmates in the photographs, including a picture in the “Cardboard Playhouse” of McDowell in a dress, captioned in the text “a glamour shot of one of our boy actors … Some of the lads sure did look good when they made up as a girl.” Presentation copy of an astonishing illustrated narrative. 6. MCDOWELL, Gerald. A Tail Gunner’s Tale. [Vantage Press, 1991]. Review copy, as new. $12,500

2014 rbms preconference | 53 (ZOAR, Ohio) Gunn, Alexander. Collection of 36 Auto- graph Letters, signed, from Alexander Gunn to William C. Whitney, and 2 letters from acquaintances of Gunn to Whitney and Senator Mark Hanna. In all, 39 letters. Vari- ous sizes, ca. 1883-1901. Generally in very good condition, some with original envelopes. Gunn, a friend of William C. Whitney, McKinley, and Mark Hanna, was a wealthy Cleveland businessman who retired to spend the last 20 years of his life in Zoar, the commune in Ohio. His note-books, covering 1883-1901, were discovered after Gunn’s death, edited by Don Seitz and published by William Collins Whitney. Wesson, in Midland Notes, states: “Gunn’s notes provide us with an enchanting picture of the pellucid life in the famous community of which he became a member. Though he fought to the last for the preservation of the community which he loved so dearly, ironically enough, it was his freside stories of life in the land of fesh-pots that resulted in its dissolu- tion by the dissatisfed younger members.” The Zoar Society originated after 1817, when approximately 350 German immigrants, mostly poor, came to eastern Ohio and settled on a tract of 5,000 acres of land, along the banks of the Tuscarawas River. They were comprised of both Lutherans and Roman Catholics, who were coming to America to escape persecution. Joseph Bimeler was a teacher who became their political and religious leader. The village was named after the biblical city to which Lot fed from Sodom and Gomorrah. Under the community Articles of Association, the earn- ings of every individual were to be turned over to a common treasury. While some families remained intact, there were some families which were broken up due to poverty, so that some homes were comprised only of men, while others were comprised only of women. The primary occupation in the community was farming, producing food for the community and for sale. Gunn was was taken with Zoar and at the time of his retirement, the Society gave him the right to occupy one of the cabins in the northeast end of town, which Gunn named “The Hermitage.” Gunn was the frst “outsider” to be allowed into the village as a resident. He soon remodeled and furnished The Hermitage in luxury, and it became a fabulous club house where he did a great deal of entertaining. Among his guests were men such as William Whitney of New York and Mark Hanna of Cleveland. Most of these letters were written while Gunn was at Zoar, many on “Zoar Society” stationery, others headed “The Hermit- age.” Gunn refers to Whitney several times as his best friend, and several of the letters ofer anxious inquiries about the health of Whitney’s wife, Flora, and deep condolences after her death. In a letter dated April 23, 1900, Gunn tells Whitney of the arrival of the book The Cookbook by Oscar of the Waldorf, which included several of Gunn’s cocktail recipes and which was inscribed to him by Oscar Tschirky; he transcribes the recipes for Whitney. Other letters are written from abroad: Paris, San Francisco, Santa Barbara. Gunn sends Whitney a leaf from his journal, written at Lake Como in 1883. Also included is a telegram from Gunn to Whitney, dated April 29, 1901, shortly before Gunn’s death, requesting that Whitney arrange to pick him up at the New York train station and transport him to a hospital. Gunn died shortly thereafter. $15,000

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